Sentence examples for control of prisoners from inspiring English sources

Though no one says it in so many words, "Taxi" produces an uncanny impression of the fundamental logic at work in the interrogation process: the Army and C.I.A. interrogators who take control of prisoners in Afghanistan or at Guantánamo assume that they must be guilty of something.

Under the lease system, inmate labor was sold to the highest bidder for a fixed period; the private entrepreneur assumed entire control of prisoners, including their labor, food, clothing, shelter, and discipline.

With US-Afghan negotiations over a strategic partnership still bogged down over issues like night-time raids and control of prisoners, Mr Karzai has been quick to seize the advantage - saying the Koran burning disaster would not have happened if the Afghans had been in charge.

A series of lawsuits forced the state to lower its inmate population and cede control of prisoner healthcare to a federal receiver, while the California inspector general found a culture of racism and abuse at a men's prison. .

In the chaos, he said, court jailers lost control of which prisoners were in which cells.

He insisted that he had used no more than "the minimum force necessary to regain control of the prisoners" and that the event was "no big deal".

General Karpinski, Colonel Phillabaum and the military police in the battalion contend that the military intelligence officers had, even before Nov. 19, essentially taken control of the prisoners in the Tier 1 cellblock and had encouraged their mistreatment.

Rangin Dadfar Spanta, Afghanistan's national security adviser, said in an interview last week that the Afghan government would eventually implement such a system but wanted control of the prisoners immediately.

In the two decades since the District lost control of its prisoners and its court system, which is also run by the federal government, nearly uninterrupted growth has filled the city's coffers, with reserves totaling more than $2.4 billion in April.

"The administration of the prisons in Honduras currently suffers from severe structural deficiencies which have led to its collapse," the report said, pointing to major challenges of systemic overcrowding, deplorable health conditions, untrained prison staff members, the delegation of internal control to prisoners and an insufficient budget.

Without solitary confinement, a prison within a prison, out-of-control prisoners would cause havoc.